Commercial Determinants of Health and Policymaking: Bridging the Gap
This series is co-hosted by the Centre for Global Health, Dalla Lana School of Public Health and the Lawrence S. Bloomberg Faculty of Nursing at the University of Toronto. OVERVIEW The commercial determinants of health (CDOH) has emerged as a unifying concept bringing together a growing number of researchers studying...
Crosswalks with Census Data using R
This workshop will provide an introduction to harmonizing data across spatial scales, with a particular emphasis on creating geographic crosswalks. Often, spatially-resolved data are available at non-uniform scales, and In different data types. For example, a researcher may wish to summarize hospital locations (point data), environmental exposures (raster data) and...
Thematic Cartography for Health Geographers
Maps can be great tools for exploratory analysis and communicating research findings. This workshop will cover intermediate-to-advanced thematic cartography aimed to help health geographers visualize their data. The first part of the workshop will provide general guidelines for designing better maps (symbology, layers and hierarchy, balance and alignment, and accessibility)....
Measuring Transit Access to Hospitals using Python
Measuring access to opportunities in a transportation system requires two key ingredients: Travel times (typically in the form of travel time matrices) and opportunity locations. In this workshop, we will use a brand-new Python module called r5py to quickly generate realistic travel time matrices for public transit and other modes....
Bibliometrics Basics – What a Researcher Needs to Know
The Centre for Research & Innovation Support in collaboration with the University of Toronto Libraries is hosting a 90-minute webinar on Bibliometrics Basics – What a Researcher Needs to Know. This session will introduce participants to Bibliometrics and altmetrics that can be used to measure a broad range of scholarly...
Queerying Health Research: Undoing Suicidism: Queering, Transing, Cripping and Maddening (Assisted) Suicide with Alexandre Baril
Undoing Suicidism: Queering, Transing, Cripping and Maddening (Assisted) Suicide In this presentation, I argue that suicidal people are oppressed by structural suicidism. Suicidism and its preventionist script reproduce violence and cause additional harm and death through forms of incarceration, discrimination, stigmatization and pathologization. This is particularly true for marginalized groups,...
Building bridges: community work, clinical services and research with people experiencing homelessness
Join us for the Upstream Lab Speaker Series launch! Our first episode features an insightful conversation between a community advisor and a family physician, delving into stories and realities of engaging with people experiencing homelessness. Meet the speakers: Mathieu Isabel is a PhD student under the supervision of Dr. Andrew...
Dementia, Care and Respect
Full Title: Dementia, Care and Respect Speakers: Amy Mullin, Professor, Dept. of Philosophy, University of Toronto Mississauga Abstract Three decades ago Ronald Dworkin set the terms of ongoing debates around health care decision-making for people with dementia, with Rebecca Dresser and Agnieszka Jaworska offering alternative recommendations and approaches. I review...
STAGE International Speaker Seminar Series (ISSS) with Hugo Aerts
Join us for the next instalment of the STAGE International Speaker Seminar Series (ISSS) with Hugo Aerts, PhD Full Professor, Maastricht University Director, Artificial Intelligence in Medicine (AIM), Harvard-MGB (Mass General Brigham) Free Hybrid Event | Registration Required Talk Title Artificial Intelligence for Medical Imaging Speaker Profile Hugo Aerts PhD...
CRIS Connects: Open Access Publishing
CRIS Connects provides targeted, real-time help from experts. Come and ask experts anything on their topic of expertise and concurrently build your tri-campus networks. Stephanie Orfano, Head Scholarly Communications and Copyright Office, UTL, will be joining us as a guest expert for CRIS Connects April session to answer questions on...